The result from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole is brilliant. The Tories stitched this up in the expectation that it would have a permanent massive Tory majority. At its first election, the Tories are the largest party, but without a majority.

today - it is likely still to be Tory, but fingers crossed Tories stayed at home pissed off. Good luck with the count! Suedey for PM!

It weird how the results are being interpreted as 'people want us to get on with Brexit' by May and other Tories

The two biggest opposition parties to leaving the EU (Lib Dem and Greens) have gained nearly 1000 seats between them. Whereas pro Brexit parties (Troy/ UKIP) have lost nearly 1500 seats between them.

To me those results indicate people don't want Brexit rather than they want us to get on with it

The good news is that I did something very few Lib Dem candidates managed in Brighton & Hove - I beat a Green candidate. The bad news is I didn't beat anyone else That just means my original assessment of my chances of winning - somewhere between extremely remote and zero - proved to be accurate.

I think the significant gain in seats for the Green Party is really significant though. I feel they’ve always been consistent in their support base, with just a few seats here and there but this feels like the first step into the proper mainstream. If it was UKIP/Brexit Party doing the same, it would be headline news. And I’m neither a Green Party voter nor someone who complains about the stance of reporting

The good news is that I did something very few Lib Dem candidates managed in Brighton & Hove - I beat a Green candidate. The bad news is I didn't beat anyone else That just means my original assessment of my chances of winning - somewhere between extremely remote and zero - proved to be accurate.

Come to think of it, I don't think any other Lib Dem candidate actually achieved that there so fair play to you!
(My mistake, one other did oops)

I assume you mean the other Lib Dem in my ward. She actually beat two Greens

It is perfectly true that the Lib Dem results need to be put into context. That said, they have done a lot better than simply winning back the seats they lost four years ago when their results were dreadful. Similarly, Labour's results four years ago were not great, so to do even worse than that is a terrible result for them.

Here in Brighton and Hove, the Lib Dems matched their national performance by doubling their number of seats. To zero.

It weird how the results are being interpreted as 'people want us to get on with Brexit' by May and other Tories

The two biggest opposition parties to leaving the EU (Lib Dem and Greens) have gained nearly 1000 seats between them. Whereas pro Brexit parties (Troy/ UKIP) have lost nearly 1500 seats between them.

To me those results indicate people don't want Brexit rather than they want us to get on with it

It's bad enough having the Tories (and many Labour people) spin the results that way. It's even worse when BBC commentators do exactly the same.

A Lib Dem beating a Green candidate is a lot less of an achievement here, we have candidates from the five main parties but the Lib Dems still sweep up more than 50% of the vote!

Did you stand SH? Or did I read something wrong somewhere?!

Yep. Laura Kuenssberg also saying on her podcast that the Labour and Tory results are equally terrible (they're not), but excusing the Tories' results because 'it's normal for a sitting government to lose ground mid electoral cycle' (it is, but the scale of the defeats are is absolutely extraordinary and far worse than the end-of-days Gordon Brown elections of 2008 and 2009) whereas the Labour results are 'even worse' because the opposition should be gaining ground (they should, but their stagnation is nowhere near as bad as the Tory rout).